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Stressed. Identify with these adjectives?

Don’t we all! The question is what, if anything, can be done about it? Ask ten different people, get ten different answers; ask Faigie Hirsch, nutrition consultant at Health Emporium, and you’ll get one four word answer: Take care of yourself!

Faigie is no newcomer to the field of nutrition. For starters, she grew up surrounded by family members who were doctors and nurses. Her mother, a nurse who later lost her vision due to a doctor’s error and could no longer work outside the house, was Faigie’s in house teacher

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and trainer.

She taught her knowledge-thirsty daughter both what she learned as a nurse and about her own diabetic and renal conditions and the special diets they required.

Aside from the information she picked up from her home environment, Faigie learned a wealth of information while training as a phlebotomist and an EKG technician. She also worked as a content writer for medical and nutritional companies, which taught her a significant amount of information related to the health field. In addition, she has handson experience, having worked in various medical centers where her knowledge and skills were noted with appreciation by the many doctors she worked with.

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expert was asked to join the nutritional team at Health Emporium so that women who come in have the option of speaking to a woman with whom they will no doubt feel more comfortable sharing personal information. Born and bred in Boro Park, Faigie is very familiar with her clientele and understands them well. She is one of them, and her customers know and feel it. She speaks their language— figuratively and literally! She is fluent in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew—with the right accent too! Women enjoy talking to her because she is down to earth, focused and realistic and explains things in a way they can understand.

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shelf where the vitamin D sits and explains its importance. If the woman or teen is out of the house or on the run most of the day, Faigie will recommend a multivitamin to fill in the gaps in their nutrition. “Take care of yourself,” she says again and again.

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MANIA Why I bought a ticket and why you should too.

by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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have a confession to make – I bought a lottery ticket for the Powerball.

After all, you’ve got to be in it to win it and this Wednesday night, winning it means winning $1.3 billion. True, the lump sum payout comes to only $806,000,000 but I think we can find a way to make do with that amount.

Now, I am not foolish, I know that I am unlikely to win. After all, the odds of winning the lottery is 1 in 292,200,000.

There is a greater likelihood of being hit by lightning twice in the same day as there is of winning the lottery. So why play it at all? Moreover, is it appropriate according to Jewish law to play or is it tantamount to throwing out money?

Interestingly, some Rabbis have suggested that there is nothing wrong with playing the lottery, but one should not buy more than one ticket. You see, buying one ticket represents human initiative to have a chance at scoring millions. However, the likelihood of winning only grows at a negligible, statistically insignificant rate when buying more tickets. Therefore, say some Rabbis, if you buy more than one ticket you lack emunah, genuine belief

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in God, for if God wants you to win, one ticket will suffice.

I agree that only one ticket should be purchased, but for an altogether different reason. The hope of winning is only a small fraction of why I bought a ticket. The real reason to play is because that ticket gives me license to dream, to ask myself important questions and to reflect in a meaningful way. If you are playing the lottery, you cannot avoid asking yourself what you would do if you won. Would you continue to work?

Would you move to Israel? Would you give a meaningful amount to charity and if so where would you direct your philanthropic dollars? How would you spend your newfound time? What luxuries, if any, would you indulge in?

What would you change about your life?

These questions are not easy to answer and require some serious soul searching. If you won the lottery and you stopped working immediately, what does that say about what you do?

Is it a profession or a calling, just for the money or also for the contribution to society?

If you won the lottery and remain living outside of Israel, is money the real reason you aren’t making aliyah right now? If winning the lottery meant quitting your job and having more time, how would you spend it – with your family, exercising, learning Torah, volunteering? What really matters to you and if it is truly important, why not find the time to do it now?

Without that ticket in your hand, these questions remain only theoretical.

The way I see it, two dollars is a small amount to pay for the license to dream.

However, since the likelihood is that the license to dream is all those two dollars will get you, buying more tickets won’t expand your license and won’t meaningfully increase your chances and would therefore be a waste of money.

So go buy a ticket and spend this Shabbos discussing with your family and friends how you would spend the rest of your life and the difference you would make if you won.

Two dollars is an absolute bargain for what you will learn.

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e met at the bathroom sinks, and that was bad news. I had been examining my nails when Devora walked up to wash her hands for lunch. I quickly abandoned my nails and started for the door.

“What’s up, Sarah?” she stopped me. “You haven’t washed yet, have you?”

My face grew hot. I wanted to get out of there as fast as I could.

“Oh, I was just examining this cut I got. Better get a Bandaid.” I left the sinks before Devora could say another word. I felt her staring at me, even with my face turned stubbornly away from her.

I walked as fast as I could, away from the confrontation.

Another one.

I looked at my finger and wondered how I could have lied so easily. I guess I’d been more afraid of Devora discovering that I’d been inspecting my nails for a possible chatzitzah for five whole minutes.

I never did wash my hands that day, and I went without lunch. There was just not enough time to wash my hands and bentch with real kavanah in a mere half an hour.

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My stomach rumbled hungrily during math, but I tried not to care.

I was only doing the right thing, and if it was hard, I would only get more reward up in Shamayim for my sacrifice.

••• “So how’s the new seat arrangement?” my mother asked me the next day after we’d changed seats. “Is your class finally happy now?”

I was about to say that most of the girls were actually upset about the seating change, but I caught myself.

Lashon hara! A red flag in my mind went up. I shouldn’t be saying that my class was upset. That would reflect badly on my classmates, or maybe on my teacher who’d made the seating arrangement.

“Um…yeah, I don’t know,” I mumbled.

“Are you happy with your seat?”

I wasn’t.

“Um…a little bit, I don’t know.”

My mother shot me a questioning look, but I offered no more. Lashon hara was at stake. Too bad if it cost me shame.

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I fell onto my bed, burying the phone There were times I wished I could under my pillow. Yes, the phone days be my old self, in the pre-Mrs. Kohn were buried, and I mourned them days, when I’d been the life of the terribly. party. Everyone had always known Those long conference calls with Sarah Stein as the fun, popular, and my friends were over; the jokes and adventurous girl with lots of friends. laughing were long gone. In fact, I Until Mrs. Kohn came around. couldn’t remember the last time I had When Mrs. Kohn, our ninth grade laughed. mechaneches, walked into class at the Why did it have to be so hard? I beginning of the year, I knew instantly felt the tears starting to come. I was that she was going to be my role MAGAZINE

model. Kind, honest, and warm, she was the ultimate tzadekes. Her lessons were shining examples of spirituality; every one left me with long-lasting inspiration.

I’d wanted so much to be like her. So I changed. Overnight.

••• “Shabbaton is here, Shabbaton is here!” the hall posters screamed in wild colors. Preparation was in full swing for the Shabbos that promised to be unforgettable. Unforgettable, that is, for everyone except for me.

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Preparation was in full swing for the Shabbos that promised to be unforgettable.

Unforgettable, that is, for everyone except for me.

I dreaded the upcoming Shabbaton.

Shabbaton meant staying out of all the fun and that would really be painful.

The mountains greeted us on Friday afternoon with cool, fresh air—a nice change from the stuffy, polluted city.

I inhaled the scent of the trees and flowers and felt invigorated by the growth around me. I knew then that this Shabbos would be a nice time for me, too.

After the Friday night meal, I passed a group of my classmates sitting and schmoozing in the bungalow. I overheard Tzippy proposing a heartto-heart “game.” Every girl would have a turn to ask the rest what they thought about her. The other girls took heartily to the idea.

I knew I had to join. This was my chance.

I took a seat in the circle, trying to avoid the curious looks darting my way.

In the dark of the night, in the cozy Friday night atmosphere, honest opinions came out in the open. My classmates enjoyed the exchange; it was eye-opening, encouraging and enlightening.

My turn came. My heart beat fast.

There was a question I wanted to ask.

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In a shaking voice, I asked, “What

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do you think of how I’ve been acting lately?”

An uncomfortable silence followed.

Then the answers came.

“Um…I hope you don’t mind me telling you this…I mean, you asked, so I guess you want to hear…” Devora began. “I think you changed a lot.”

My heart beat faster. The truth was now articulated into words. “Tell me, tell me everything.”

My friends told me the truth. They saw me as extreme, fretful and selfconscious. I was overdoing things.

“Sarah, we miss your old self. What happened to you?”

I felt like hugging every one of my friends right then. They cared about me.

The tears came, first in trickles, then in torrents. With heaving shoulders, I let out all of my doubts, fears and lack of confidence. I told my friends how I hated covering up. I told them how I didn’t know how to get myself out of it.

My friends nodded and commiserated with me.

I felt awash with relief. The tears cleansed that rusty cover I’ve fastened to my heart.

I wasn’t alone in it anymore.

After we all went to bed in the wee hours of the morning, I felt

spent. It was hard work, throwing out all the baggage inside of me.

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I approached Mrs. Kohn that Shabbos afternoon.

Realizing I wanted to discuss something personal, she offered to stroll with me on the country road near the camp.

I spilled out all my worries again.

After I finished talking, she smiled and said, “Sarah, this isn’t something new to me. Actually, I’ve gone through the same thing.”

Wow, could that be? I felt a surge of warmth within me. I wasn’t alone.

I wasn’t crazy. It had happened to someone before.

Mrs. Kohn, the most normal and kind person, had experienced the same thing.

She drew in a deep breath and continued, “Sarah, there’s one thing you should always keep in mind. If you feel tense or anxious about life, something is going wrong. True avodas Hashem comes along with inner peace.

If there’s no inner peace, it’s not avodas Hashem.”

Wow. It was such logic; how hadn’t it struck me before?

She looked at me warmly and continued, “I know you have the best of

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intentions. You just need guidance to help you make your avodas Hashem real.

“Sarah, keep two rules in mind: One, find the middle road. It’s counterproductive to doubt things ten times after you’ve done them.

Check for a chatzitzah, but no more than that. Don’t overdo it. Hashem doesn’t expect the impossible from us.

“Secondly, know the halachah.

Ask someone when you don’t know.

If you have doubts about something, don’t automatically assume it’s wrong. Telling your mother that your class was unhappy about the seating arrangement is not lashon hara. To label someone as unhappy is wrong. But here they were dissatisfied with something specific.

There’s nothing wrong with that.

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And it doesn’t reflect badly on the teacher; it’s obvious that she didn’t intend to upset the students.”

A huge load rolled off my chest.

So I wasn’t even expected to do all that. I didn’t have to embarrass myself like that, after all.

“But, Sarah, keeping halachah the way you should is expected of you.

When you are doing something right, do it with confidence. Don’t doubt yourself. Don’t be ashamed of doing the right thing. Sometimes that’s a challenge. There are people out there who scoff anything righteous-sounding. But you’ll find that when you’re confident in your avodas Hashem, people will admire you too much to mock you.”

Mrs. Kohn turned to head back to the camp, and flashed her inimitable smile.

“Sarah, I’ll be there for you, to help you be who you really want to be, step by step. And eventually, when you’ll feel happy inside, you’ll know you’re on the right track.”

I tried to thank my teacher properly, but my voice choked up.

Things would be good again. I’d be liberated from imprisonment.

I knew it might take time, I knew it would mean grueling work. I had to uproot deeply set habits.

But I knew that the time would come. One day I would smile. I would laugh. I would have a life of fun again.

Malky Hollander is a freelance translator and writer for teens and adults who lives in Ashdod, Israel.

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Hardwired to Give

by Karin Terebessy

M

y work in social services has shown me that no matter how destitute and troubled people are, they have a burning desire to give.

One cold morning in Upstate New York, I pulled my car up next to a dilapidated curb in front of a dilapidated apartment building. I was a case manager for high risk teens, and most of my clients lived in places like this. I commonly side stepped rats and roaches (and sometimes sleeping bodies) as I made my way through dark hallways on my way to an apartment door.

But this morning, my client came bounding out of her building to meet me. Her excitement was palpable, even through the frozen car window She bounced into the passenger seat and started talking right away. “Can we go to the food pantry?” she asked.

I was confused. We had gone to the food pantry a few weeks ago, and she

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was only allowed one visit a month. This was the week after Thanksgiving and she’d been the recipient of a donated Thanksgiving food basket – a turkey and all the fixings.

“Oh, you misunderstand,” she continued brightly, “I don’t want to get food, I want to give food.”

Only then did I see the small grocery bag in her hands. She dug around the crinkly plastic and pulled out two cans of cranberry sauce.

“They were in the Thanksgiving basket,” she explained. “I don’t like cranberry sauce. I thought I could donate it to the food pantry.”

This girl was one of my oldest clients – almost 21. She had dropped out of school at the age of 16 to care for her father who was dying of cancer. After nearly a year of selfless care, he died and she was left alone. Too embarrassed to go back to school but unable to get a job to pay rent, she wound up on the streets living under a bridge. Eventually, she got connected with

services, earned her GED, and became a pharmacy tech. It paid just enough to make rent, but paid for little else.

I often brought her to the food pantry.

On occasion, I got her clothing vouchers so she could rifle through the used and worn jeans and shirts at the charity shop.

One time, I helped her apply for a library card. She spent most of her free time reading books in the warm, quiet between the book shelves.

In my little car, she continued to stare at me brightly. Her blue eyes raised in a smile. Still holding up the two cans of cranberry sauce, she asked again, “Can we go to the food pantry?”

This was the first time in her life she had something to spare. And all she wanted to do was give.

Hardwired to Give Giving seems to be innate to our humanity.

Scientific studies have shown that

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when one gives, the chemical dopamine is released in the brain. This is the same feelgood chemical that gets released when we eat chocolate. We seem to be hardwired to enjoy giving.

Ever play the game with a baby where you hand her a toy, she hands it back, you hand her the same toy, she hands the same toy back, and so on and so on? It’s always seemed to me that the baby’s delight upon receiving the toy is heightened by her anticipation of giving in return.

Giving seems to be innate. The only variant is opportunity.

Another teen client I had loved to bake, at least in theory. She and her family were so poor there was barely enough food for sustenance, much less luxurious ingredients for baking. Her mom worked three jobs to support the family and was seldom home. Left unattended, she and her siblings got into all kinds of trouble.

So much so that they had been labeled “trouble.”

And my client, for one, had begun to believe it.

When the holidays came around, some compassionate tellers at the local bank donated presents for the kids and teens who couldn’t otherwise afford them.

We managed to give this girl baking supplies – flour and sugar, baking soda and salt, a mixing bowl, measuring cup and a tray for baking.

About a week after the holidays, the front desk buzzed my office. In the lobby, the receptionist handed me a plate of large, golden cookies.

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Giving seems to be innate to our humanity.

We seem to be hardwired to enjoy giving.

to live. How to clean a kitchen, cook a meal, speak at an interview, negotiate through a conflict, apply for a job. But first, I had to teach some of them to read.

One day, the director of the agency called in sick. Her father had died and she’d be at the wake all day. The men in the halfway house were bereft. They wanted to do something for the director who had done so much for them. But they didn’t know where to begin. When I offered to drive them all them to the wake they nearly jumped over each to get into the agency van.

We drove for an hour. None of them had nice clothes to wear. They walked into this awkward, new, and solemn space just so they could say, with a sincerity that can only come from experience, “I’m sorry for your loss.”

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simply said, “Thanks.”

It’s not only idealistic teens who exhibit this generosity. I had relocated to Connecticut and was working in a halfway house for former substance abusers living with HIV/AIDS. These men had dropped out of school before they’d even hit ninth grade. They had no formal education, no employable skills, and many had no teeth, lost to their various addictions over the years.

My job was simple – teach them how

Afforded the opportunity, our first and lasting desire is to give.

Whether we give a material good, like my client with the cranberry sauce, or we give of our skills, like my client baking cookies, or we give of our time and presence, like my clients at the funeral – we want to give.

God is the ultimate Giver, giving us both life and this world to enjoy. And He made us in His likeness. When we give, in some way we ignite that internal Divine spark and connect with the generosity of God. Everything we have to give was given to us first by God. So by giving to others, we are not simply giving of ourselves, we are being given an opportunity to play conduit to the Divine.

Which is why it feels so good. By giving, we in turn receive the greatest gift that can be given.

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Teach Your Children Well

by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today.

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hat creates freedom?

A revolution in the streets? Mass protest?

Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new?

History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,” wrote Wordsworth about the French revolution, but the mood did not last long. It rarely does. Sometimes all that happens is that the tyranny of the minority is replaced by the tyranny of the majority; sometimes not even that.

The faces change. The suffering remains.

The books of Exodus and Deuteronomy take a different route altogether. It’s astonishing how, reflecting on the Israelites’ journey from slavery to freedom, Moses keeps returning to one subject above all others: how we teach our children.

“When your children ask you this, you should answer them that.” “Teach your child on that day.” “Say to your child ...”

Four times Moses speaks about the duty

of parents to educate their children, handing on to them their people’s story until it becomes their own.

That’s what we do each year on Passover as we gather in our extended families to re-enact the night long ago when our ancestors readied themselves to leave Egypt and begin the long walk to freedom. It’s a remarkable ceremony, the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world, going back thousands of years. We still eat the matzah, the dry unleavened “bread of affliction,” and taste the maror, the “bitter herbs” of slavery.

And children are still at the heart of this celebration. For we can only tell the story in response to questions asked by a child. That’s why, for many of us, our earliest Jewish memory is of asking the “four questions,” beginning with “Why is this night different?” We remain faithful to Moses’ mandate: first teach the children.

Much has been written since Moses’ day about freedom. Even today it is the key word of politics, especially in those parts of the world under

repressive regimes. Still the talk is of politics and power, armies and militias, tactics and strategy, regime change and international intervention. Still we are surprised when the new guard turns out to be as bad as the old guard. The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

Moses taught us something else entirely. The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like.

Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves. Get them to continue the heritage not through blind obedience – the world’s worst preparation for liberty – but through active, challenging conversation across the generations. That’s how we learned,

We have to teach our children that freedom only comes when you respect the freedom of others, that it involves responsibilities as well as rights and that it means making sacrifices for the common good. as children, about the long walk to freedom. It’s how we came to take our ancestors’ story as our own.

Amid all the talk about the challenges facing the world in the twenty first century – climate change, the global economy, political turmoil, the impact of the new technology – far too little is said or thought about education, and even when it is, it focuses on the wrong things, such as technical skills. Education is the single most important determinant of the future of the human race, and what and how we teach our children is the most important decision we can make.

We have to teach our children that freedom only comes when you respect the freedom of others, that it involves responsibilities as well as rights and that it means making sacrifices for the common good. God, the supreme power, intervened in history long ago to help the supremely powerless, a nation of slaves, and ever since, His work must be ours. Nor can we teach these things without giving children the space to ask, question and challenge, thereby learning the dignity of dissent, itself one of the elements of freedom.

Liberty is born not on the battlefield but in homes, schools and houses of study. That is the message of the world’s oldest ritual, Passover, and its force remains undiminished today.

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Spring is in the air! We can once again shed our heavy winter gear and head out with a skip and a hop hoping for the sun to warm us. The winter freeze is over as is being replaced by very welcome warmer, sunnier days. It is not as warm as summer but we can be happy in the knowledge that summer can’t be too far off.

The Sefer Ta’amei HaMinhagim (page 251) a compendium of most if not all Jewish customs, writes that the month of Iyar generally corresponding to the month of May has been tried and tested as a time for healing, from the aches and pains that may affect a person. Why is this so? He brings down from the writings of a great Chassidic master, the B’nai Yisaschar, who teaches that most weakness and illness come from foods, which do not comport with the person’s nature or composition. The Rambam (Maimonides) (in the treatise Hilchos De’os 4:15) writes likewise.

He spends an inordinate amount of his writing advising people on a healthy lifestyle which also includes proper eating habits, so as to keep hale in body and soul. See also the Code of Jewish Law Chapter 32.

The Torah tells us that the Manna began to fall in this month (on the 16th day of Iyar 2448)--and it was a perfect food from which resulted no sickness, pain or even waste matter.

Manna had curative powers affecting a cure on those who were ill--Hashem left the curative nature of the month in effect even through today. Accordingly, this month of Iyar is a time of “segulah l’refuah”, meaning good omen for healing. Our sages confirm that even rain that falls during this month is considered to have healing properties, thus some raindrops on our hands and face can affect miraculous cures. Many even ingest some of the raindrops that fall during this month, considering it healing for every organ.

In fact, the Ta’amei HaMinhagim notes, the name “Iyar” is an acronym for Ani Hashem Rofecha--I am Hashem, Your Healer.

I dare suggest that it is not by chance that it coincides with the month following Pesach, during which we indulged in inordinate amounts of protein (eggs, fish, meat) served

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two times every day and matzo, not to mention all the delectable desserts offered at every meal. The month following Pesach is a good time to do an internal spring cleaning.

If we were to visit the food markets this time of year, we would see it filled with all types of green leafy vegetables and herbs, most of them bitter in nature, which is also not a coincidence, since these bitter vegetables are very healing for our liver.

The liver is the linchpin of the body’s cleansing system aided by the skin, kidneys and gastrointestinal tract as it endlessly neutralizes and evicts unwanted substances thus it is imperative that we give it a chance to rejuvenate.

Our liver really needs a break from all its hard work 24/7 and spring is the perfect time for it.

The Rambam’s guarantee The Rambam (Maimonides) who lived almost 1000 years ago and was one of the greatest doctors in ancient times and was a firm believer in keeping our bodies healthy through proper eating habits amongst other things like exercise, and positive attitude.

He advocated taking care of our colon as a first step to health and vitality.

He guaranteed that if we followed his advice we would be spared illnesses.

Today modern medicine has varied advice about what constitutes a healthy diet and as such, many different diet books have cropped up, but his advice is still very sound.

There is a story told about the venerated sage Rabbi Yaacov Kamenetzky who at some point in his life was diagnosed with a terrible illness.

He told the doctor that there had to be a grave error in his diagnosis and he requested that the tests be redone. How do you know asked the doctor?

Because all my life I followed the Rambam’s directives in my eating habits and he guaranteed that those who did so, would never get sick.

They obliged him, took another the blood test, and were surprised to see that indeed he was right -he had been misdiagnosed. .Amazing Right? No following

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our sage’s advice can only benefit us.

Furthermore, the Rambam highly advises us to eat local and in season fruits and vegetables. With the advent of easy transportation our produce travel hundreds of miles across the globe and they are not the best for us, as they are picked unripe and ripen en route. Not the ideal situation.

What is detoxing?

In naturopathic circles, the term detoxing is very common, as it is considered good practice to detoxify every organ of the body of impurities.

These substances can be ingested or inhaled in the form of pesticides, heavy metals, alcohol overindulgence, cigarette smoke, even second hand smoke fumes, dry-cleaning fumes and other chemicals.

If not ousted, they can impair the immune system and lead to fatigue, mental fogginess, headaches, skin problems, neurological ailments or heart disease.

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What does detoxing achieve?

Although conventional western doctors seldom prescribe detoxification, it is a staple among holistic physicians. The research is in its infancy, but anecdotal evidence suggests that when properly conducted, detoxing can benefit your overall well-being.

Detoxifying means cleansing our body. Spring is the best time to detoxify, because in our harsh winters in North America, we must preserve our strength during the winter months, consuming warming foods that build and strengthen.

Detoxifying is a way to recharge, rejuvenate, and renew “. The body is coming out of what might be called hibernation. During summer months, we are naturally more active and need the reserve of energy for optimal function.

What does a detox program consist of?

A typical detoxing program lasts anywhere from three days to two weeks; depending on your condition and your

doctor’s advice; devotees consider twice yearly, in the month of May following the Purim Pesach indulgences and in October following the three week of Yomtov when we welcome the fall season to be prime time.

The process is two-pronged. First, you reduce toxin intake meaning that during this period one should not consume alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, refined sugar or often-allergenic or sensitizing foods such as dairy products, red meat, wheat, peanuts, soybeans or corn.

Second, you increase your body’s ability to flush out toxins- through vigorous exercise and saunas, which lead to sweating.

Numerous herbal supplements support the liver- such as milk thistle, dandelion and burdock, which can be consumed in the form of tea, fresh juices or in salads.

Even 1/2 hour daily of any kind of exercise (walking, easy bicycling and swimming) or a 20-minute sauna; as well as skin brushing; massages; deep breathing and eight hours’ sleep nightly can all aid in this detoxifying program. This routine is unlikely to harm any healthy person.

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Enjoy this simple-to-make salad, when snow peas are at the peak of their sweetness. Low in calories and high in nutrients, snow peas and radishes provide a satisfying crunch—and both veggies are rich in hearthealthy fiber, which provides your digestive tract with a boost and help keep you feeling full Ingredients 2 cups (8 ounces) snow peas, trimmed 2 scallions (white and green parts), thinly sliced 4 radishes, trimmed and cut into thin strips (about ½ cup) ¼ cup rice vinegar or lemon juice 1 tsp sugar 1 Tbs walnut or canola oil Directions Wash snow peas well Cut off ends of snow peas and toss into a bowl.

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Rejuvenating Beet Salad Beets are known for their therapeutic effect on the liver, as well as being hailed as blood builders. Health benefits of beet roots can be attributed to their richness in nutrients, vitamins and minerals. They are a source of carotenoids and lutein/zeaxanthin. Beets are also rich in dietary fiber, vitamin C, magnesium, iron, copper and phosphorus. They are very low in calories but have the highest sugar content of all vegetables. It is also used to make refined sugar.

Beetroot can be consumed in various forms. Raw grated into salads or added as an ingredient to soups, stews, mixed with horseradish and pickled and also used as a natural coloring agent. I often include one small beet into my apple compote to give it a nice reddish hue. Even though beets are available throughout the year they are the first to appear in the spring.

Ingredients 2 medium beets cooked until tender 1 red pepper cut into strips 1 yellow pepper cut into strips 1 small red onion cut into circles 1 large raw carrot cut into rounds Lemon dressing ½ lemon juiced ½ tsp salt 2 Tbs water 2 Tbs olive oil Directions In a salad bowl mix all ingredients and coat with a lemon dressing.

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Asparagus contain carotene, vitamin B, C, E. This vegetable has demonstrated to be a great cleanser, which protects from cardiovascular diseases, reduces cholesterol and helps protect against cancer. It can be eaten raw in salads but also makes a delectably light soup.

Ingredients 1 medium onion chopped 3 cloves garlic 1 Tbs. oil 2 lbs asparagus cut into 1 inch pieces 2 zucchini peeled and diced 1 leek well cleaned 4 quarts water 2 Tbs oatmeal

(optional) 1 tsp salt 1 tsp cumin (optional) Directions In a 6 quart pot sauté onions and garlic in 1 Tbs oil until translucent, add the asparagus, zucchini and leek. Sauté for 5 minutes. Add water, cook for 20 minutes, season to taste with salt and garlic. For a thicker soup, add the two tablespoons of oatmeal, stir for a few minutes and allow to stand for 5 minutes before serving. Garnish with sautéed onions and homemade croutons.

Preparation: 30 minutes Serves 8 Enjoy this season in the greatest of health!

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